283.]
[Footnote 126: _Geognostische Reschreibung des bayerischen
Alpengebirges_; Gotha, 1861.]
[Footnote 127: These constitute the upper bone bed and Dachstein
limestone beds of the uppermost part of the Trias formation.]
[Footnote 128: _Hereynia Curiosa_, cap. v. The same account is given in
Behren's _Natural History of the Harz Forest_, of which an English
translation was published in 1730.]
[Footnote 129: See also Muncke, _Handbuch der Naturlehre_, iii. 277;
Heidelberg, 1830.]
[Footnote 130: See page 58. The more modern spelling is _frais-puits_.]
[Footnote 131: liv. 292.]
[Footnote 132: Described by Schaller, _Leitmeritzer Kreis_, p. 271, and
by Sommer, in the same publication, p. 331. I have not been able to
procure this book.]
[Footnote 133: _Boehmens Topogr._, i. 339. This reference is given by
Professor Pleischl.]
[Footnote 134: _Annalen_, lxxxi. 579.]
[Footnote 135: I was told, in 1864, by a chamois-hunter of Les Plans, a
valley two hours above Bex, that some years before he was cutting a
wood-road through the forest early in September, when, at a depth of 6
inches below the surface, he found the ground frozen hard.
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